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tags: [ecopolsoc, privacy, surveillance-capitalism]
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created: Thursday, January 09, 2025
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# 747589ad_effects_of_privacy_violation
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_What surveillance really is, at its root, is a highly effective form of social
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control. The knowledge of always being watched changes our behavior and stifles
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dissent. The inability to associate secretly means there is no longer any
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possibility for free association. The inability to whisper means there is no
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longer any speech that is truly free of coercion, real or implied. Most
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profoundly, pervasive surveillance threatens to eliminate the most vital element
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of both democracy and social movements: the mental space for people to form
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dissenting and unpopular views._
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- https://riseup.net/en/about-us/newsletter/2013/08#riseup-and-the-recent-email-provider-closures
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_If you live in a surveillance state for long enough, you create a censor in
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your head. When video cameras are routine fixtures in urban landscapes; when
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corporate Internet giants store records of online navigation and communication;
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and when managers and bosses maintain capabilities to measure and monitor
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employees as never before, society at large pays the price. These different
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vectors of surveillance aggregate, exerting a pressure for us to blend in, to
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think twice before speaking out, to, in essence, follow a narrow set of
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prescribed norms. Social conformity encourages quiet resignation and discourages
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the experimental - and necessarily risky - acts of speaking, thinking, and doing
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required for healthy democratic dissent._
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Gabriella Coleman. _Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy_ (2014): 380
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